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MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of: Zeverland, Blossom & Decay, and Astral Frontier Online
Welcome back to another roundup of MMOs and MMO-adjacent multiplayer games you’ve never heard of! For the most part, we're falling into the more...
EVE Online plans to scale back force projection to allow smaller groups a chance to be competitive
It's exceedingly tough to be a new kid -- or a new corp -- on the block in EVE Online these days, as nearly...
Bungie talks up Marathon’s Mid-Season 2 update, but players are far more interested in Destiny 2 these days
Bugie's extraction shooter Marathon is gearing up for a hefty patch when Update 1.1.5 arrives next week on July 21st. In a recent blog...
Belghast’s Blaugust month-long MMO blogging challenge will continue this year thanks to event mentors
At the top of this month, we had the deeply sad duty to report that prolific MMORPG blogger, podcaster, and community leader Mark "Belghast"...
DC Universe Online teases the sidekick system and ally mission systems in development
DC Universe Online has delivered a new producer's letter this week as Daybreak's Dimensional Ink team and executive producer Andrew Emerson touch base on...
Rogue server SWG Legends is working on a 64-bit client for 23-year-old Star Wars Galaxies
Even as a big fan of Star Wars Galaxies rogue servers and emulation projects and specifically of SWG Legends, I was surprised to read...
RuneScape studio says this week’s housing upgrade is not a ‘one-and-done’ feature
Yesterday's massive RuneScape housing upgrade did not go off without a hitch, meaning that Jagex is already hard at work shoring up the revised...
Siege Camp’s in-development MMORPG Anvil Empires just got a big map and combat overhaul
It's been many months since we checked in on Anvil Empires, the Siege Camp followup to Foxhole that enchanted MOP's Fight or Kite columnist...
Massively Overthinking: What’s your first reaction to meeting someone in your main MMORPG?
In the MOP comments a few weeks back, a group of our readers debated how MMO gamers would react to seeing other groups in...
RuneScape Dragonwilds teases Scorned Wilderness and its September 15 boss raid
With Umbral Sands in the rearview mirror, RuneScape Dragonwilds is shaking off complaints about grind and setting expectations for Scorned Wilderness, which is the...
MMO Hype Train: Can Scars of Honor overcome its generic WoW clone identity?
Whenever I'm looking at an upcoming MMO project, I have the same pressing question: Is this a contender? As in, does this project have...
EverQuest explains the ‘personal loot’ ruleset for its August progression server, Lethar
A week ago, Daybreak announced something juicy coming to Classic EverQuest: a new time-locked expansion server. Called Lethar, it's set to open August 26th,...
Obituary: MMORPG blogger and community leader Mark ‘Belghast’ Temple has passed away
I'm sorry to be the bearer of this news, but a bright light in the MMORPG genre has gone dark: Long-time MMORPG blogger and...
Windrose teases the new biome, improved ship gameplay, and wind mechanics coming in Ashlands
Are you one of the 11,000 people still playing Windrose at its peak concurrency these last few weeks? Or maybe even just one of...
Valheim’s price is going up in September as the devs won’t confirm post-launch content
If you're one of the five people left on the planet who don't already own Valheim, you should probably just go for it during...
Massively Overthinking: Unbundling the MMORPG genre, 12 years later
Stars Reach boss Raph Koster recently did an interview over on Polygon, and if you've been following Koster as long as we have, you...
Massively Overthinking: Under what conditions, if any, would you accept AI use in an MMORPG?
Earlier this month, market data analyst Ross Burton (via PC Gamer) wrote a blog about the correlation between Steam reviews and AI disclosures, and...
Multiplayer ‘remains a clear focus’ for Dune Awakening, says Funcom in its single-player explainer
As we've been reporting, Dune Awakening's console launch comes with a new option: the ability to play the game without any of those pesky...
Dune Awakening’s 1.4.10 update will land before September, Funcom opens PS5 CBT test signups
Dune Awakening's monthly dev blog dropped yesterday afternoon, and while it's mostly a recap of Funcom stuff you've already seen - like the anniversary...
Massively Overthinking: Is the era of the themepark MMORPG over?
Earlier this week, MMOPRPG veteran Raph Koster - who is known for his past and upcoming sandboxes - suggested that themepark MMORPG are in...
